Wire-splicer



P. s. PEARSON.

WIRE SPLIGER.

(No ModeL) Patented June 8", 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED S. PEARSON, OF MEDFORD, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO \VILLIAM H. YVARD, OF LOWELL, MASSAOHUSETTS.

WIRE-SPLICER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,194, dated June 8, 1886.

Application filed June 1, 1885. Serial No. 167,356. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED S. PEARSON, of Medford,in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented allow and useful WiI-cSplicer, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and being a part hereof, in which 7 Figures 1 and 2 are side elevations of my splicer; Figs. 3 and 4, inner plan views of its twojaws; Fig. 5, a view of two pieces of wire spliced together with my splicer; Fig. 6, a view of two pieces of wire as they are when ready to be spliced.

The instrument consists of two jaws, A B, provided with suitable handles, by which the jaws can be opened and closed. Between these jaws,when closed, there is a passage, a, large enough to receive the wires to be spliced, and preferably made smaller at I). From the passage a extends the slot d, in which the endf' of the bent wiref lies. It will now be clear that when one of the wires,f",extcnds through the passage a, and the other wire, f lies partly in slot (1 and partly in the enlarged part of a, that part of the wire j which lies in slot d can be coiled around wire f 1 by holding the two wires firmly by a hand-vise or the like and moving the splicer arou'nd wiref as an axis. XVh'en the coil f has been made, the

other coil, f is made in thesame way. The passage a is made smaller at I), in order that the wiref may be held centrally in the coil which surrounds it; but while it is desirable to have the passage a thus contracted at b, yet this is not strictly essential, as an inferior job can be done with the passage a of the same diameter throughout.

The essential feature of the invention is the slot d, in combination with a passage lying across it, so as to receive the two wires f f, one being bent,as shown, so that a portion of it lies in slot (Z and a portion in the cross-pas sage.

I have shown my tool with flat-nosed plierjaws; but it may obviously be made without these jaws,or with nippers or the like instead of them.

I am aware of Patent No. 130,778, August 20, 1872, to \Volcott, and disclaim all that is described in it.

What I claim as my invention is- The instrument above described, consisting of the two jaws A B, with the cross-passagea and the intersecting slot d between the jaws, substantially as set forth.

FRED S. PEARSON.

Witnesses:

WM. A. COPELAND, JoHN R. Snow. 

